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Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The Wright Brothers Story.
Life Lesson #100 – Raise Your Expectations.
Rex was a good student in school—not the outstanding student he could have been, but a good student. He was picked on a lot, and didn’t have many friends—no best friends. Sometimes he was even afraid to go to school, and that certainly was not good for his grades. He was very close to his family but not really close to anybody else.
Rex liked organizing things and collecting things, but he really didn’t know anybody else who had those same interests. He was not very good at football, basketball, baseball, track, or any other sports, although he would have put more effort into them if he had not been laughed at so much when he tried. He never understood why sports was the most important thing in life for so many people. So, he learned how to just keep to himself and work on the things he was good at.
He finally learned that he was his own best friend, and that he was going to become all he could be regardless of what the others thought. His grades began to skyrocket! He finished high school at the top of his class, went to college, still at the top of his class, and eventually earned five degrees!
Today, he is vice president of a large worldwide company and he has many people working for him—people who enjoy working for him, because he treats them the way he wishes he had been treated in school.
He could have chosen to hurt others the way he was hurt. But instead, he chose to become a HERO, not only to those around him, but also to himself!
– Jim Lord